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M'AGHINE FOR CUTTING 0R SLIGING SUGAR CANE, 650. No. 494,946; PatentedApr. 4. 1893.

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UNITED STATES ATENT Fries.

\VILLIAM BENNY \VATSON, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

MACHINE FOR-CUTTING OR SLlClNG SUGAR-CANE, 8L0- SPECIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 494,946, dated April 4, 1893. Applicationfiled July '7, 1892. flerial No. 439,272. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BENNY Winn SON, engineer, of the MirrleeslVatson do Yaryan Company,Limited,of 45 Scotland Street, Glasgow, in thecounties of Lanark and Benfrew, Scotland, have invented Improvements inMachinery for Cutting or Slicing Sugar- Cane orAn alogousSaccharinePlants, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in machinery for cutting or slicingsugar canes or analogous saccharine plants preparatory to the process ofextraction of the juice by diffusion, and has for its object the savingof labor and improved cutting or slicing of the canes.

My invention consists of two disks or cones revolving toward one anotherand so close together that they almost touch. These disks or'cones arefitted with the usual cutting or slicing, knives, and the canes are fedto these cutting or slicing knives by means of rollers drivenatasuitable speed from the shafting that drives the cutting disks orother suitable moving shaft or motor.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan of the machine with two revolvingdisks. Fig. 2 is an elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 1showing the disks. Fig. 4 is a plan of the machine with two revolvingcones. Fig. 5 is an elevation of Fig. 4-. Fig. 6 is an end view showingface of one cone and side of the other. Fig. 7 is an enlarged plan viewof the cones A and A. Fig. 8 is afront View of the cutter-box and blade,and Fig. 9 is a section on line x-mFig. 8. Fig. 10 shows the endlessconveyor in side elevation with its driving wheel.

A, A, are the revolving disks or cones fitted with the cutting orslicing knives B,B,B, driven by suitable mechanism in the directionshown by the arrows, always toward each other, from their upperperipheries.

In Fig. 1 the axes of the cutting disks are parallel and the radialknives or cutters which extend to the peripheries are placed on thefront faces, in suitable boxes as shown in detail in Figs. '7, 8 and 9.The box b is secured in the disk by any suitable locking device, theblade being fastened by the screws 0, c. As shown in Figs. 3 and 8 theblades may be grooved, so that a crushing or tearing of the cane takesplace if found more desirable.

In Fig. 2 the feeding mechanism of wellknown form, is shown with theendless bandcarrier G, driven in unison with the two sets of feedrollersEand F. These rollers may be fluted or plain, and only one setmay be used. These rollers guide the cane down the inclined chute S, tothe ledger plate L which is shown stationary, but may be provided withadjusting means. Also in Fig. 2 the disk A is shown removed and thecutter or disk A is shown in section,showing the blade in a parallelposition and midway between the top plate P, (shown more clearly in Fig.3) and the ledger plate L.

Figs. 4, 5 and 6, show a modification having cones to hold the blades,which brings the axes of the disks at right angles to each other, sothat bevel gear may be used, driving both from one shaft. As shown, theradial knives or cutters of the two revolving cutter-bearing disks A andA meet and extend across the line of feed, and the cane as it is feddown between the plate P and ledger plate L, first receives a shearingaction from the side of the chute toward the center, then as the bladespass a line drawn from their centers the out is vertical ending in ashearing action from the center of the chute, outward. This prevents thecrowding of the cane to one side as would occur where only one disk withcutters the whole width of the chute was used, the knives necessarilybeing twice the length of those shown. My invention not only combinesthe advantage as above cited but the knives being shorter, are easierhandled, for grinding.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In combination,with the feeding mechanism, and the two revolving disks or cones whichhave their cutters pass the ledger plate in the same vertical plane,substantially as described. a

2. In combination, the feeding mechanism, the two adjacent revolvingdisks or cones in the same plane having suitable knives or cutterssubstantially as and for the purpose set In testimony whereof I havesigned my 10 forth. name to this specification in the presence of 3. Thecombination of a suitable feed, and two witnesses. two revolvingcutter-bearing disks, whose WM. BENNY WATSON. 5 cutters are radiallyarranged and whose cut- Witnesses:

ting faces together, extend across the line of k JOHN LIDDLE, I feedwhereby they shear in opposite direc- Patent Agent, Glasgow. tions andtoward the center, as and for the ARTHUR HARTLEY YUILE,

purpose set forth. 154 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.

